
Deuteronomy

   

   {1:1} These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the
Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between
Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. {1:2} It is
eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to
Kadesh-barnea. {1:3} It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh
month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children
of Israel, according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to
them; {1:4} after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who
lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at
Edrei. {1:5} Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to
declare this law, saying, {1:6} Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb,
saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain: {1:7} turn you,
and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and
to all [the places] near thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country,
and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of
the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river
Euphrates. {1:8} Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and
possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.
{1:9} I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you
myself alone: {1:10} Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and, behold,
you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude. {1:11} Yahweh,
the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are,
and bless you, as he has promised you! {1:12} How can I myself alone
bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? {1:13} Take
wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and
I will make them heads over you. {1:14} You answered me, and said, The
thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do. {1:15} So I took
the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over
you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of
fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
{1:16} I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes]
between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his
brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. {1:17} You shall not
show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great
alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is
God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me,
and I will hear it. {1:18} I commanded you at that time all the things
which you should do. {1:19} We traveled from Horeb, and went through
all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the
hill-country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we
came to Kadesh-barnea. {1:20} I said to you, You are come to the
hill-country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us. {1:21}
Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you: go up, take
possession, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you;
don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. {1:22} You came near to me
everyone of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may
search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we
must go up, and the cities to which we shall come. {1:23} The thing
pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:
{1:24} and they turned and went up into the hill-country, and came to
the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. {1:25} They took of the fruit
of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us
word again, and said, It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to
us. {1:26} Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment
of Yahweh your God: {1:27} and you murmured in your tents, and said,
Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of
Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
{1:28} Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt,
saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great
and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the
Anakim there. {1:29} Then I said to you, Don't dread, neither be afraid
of them. {1:30} Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for
you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
{1:31} and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your
God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went,
until you came to this place. {1:32} Yet in this thing you didn't
believe Yahweh your God, {1:33} who went before you in the way, to seek
you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you
by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day. {1:34} Yahweh heard
the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying, {1:35}
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the
good land, which I swore to give to your fathers, {1:36} save Caleb the
son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that
he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has wholly followed
Yahweh. {1:37} Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying,
You also shall not go in there: {1:38} Joshua the son of Nun, who
stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you him; for he
shall cause Israel to inherit it. {1:39} Moreover your little ones,
whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no
knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I
give it, and they shall possess it. {1:40} But as for you, turn you,
and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
{1:41} Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against Yahweh,
we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded
us. You girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go
up into the hill-country. {1:42} Yahweh said to me, Tell them, Don't go
up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before
your enemies. {1:43} So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you
rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and
went up into the hill-country. {1:44} The Amorites, who lived in that
hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and
beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah. {1:45} You returned and wept
before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn't listen to your voice, nor gave ear to
you. {1:46} So you abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days
that you abode [there].

    {2:1} Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by
the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we compassed Mount
Seir many days. {2:2} Yahweh spoke to me, saying, {2:3} You have
compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. {2:4} Command
you the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your
brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be
afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore; {2:5} don't
contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so
much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given
Mount Seir to Esau for a possession. {2:6} You shall purchase food of
them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them
for money, that you may drink. {2:7} For Yahweh your God has blessed
you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through
this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your God has been with
you; you have lacked nothing. {2:8} So we passed by from our brothers
the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah
from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the
wilderness of Moab. {2:9} Yahweh said to me, Don't bother Moab, neither
contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a
possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a
possession. {2:10} (The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and
many, and tall, as the Anakim: {2:11} these also are accounted Rephaim,
as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. {2:12} The Horites also
lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they
destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel
did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.) {2:13}
Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered. We went over the brook
Zered. {2:14} The days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we
were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the
generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp,
as Yahweh swore to them. {2:15} Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against
them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were
consumed. {2:16} So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed
and dead from among the people, {2:17} that Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
{2:18} You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab: {2:19} and
when you come near over against the children of Ammon, don't bother
them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you of the land of the
children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the
children of Lot for a possession. {2:20} (That also is accounted a land
of Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein before; but the Ammonites call them
Zamzummim, {2:21} a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim;
but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and
lived in their place; {2:22} as he did for the children of Esau, who
dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they
succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day: {2:23} and
the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who
came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.)
{2:24} Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the
Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of
Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in
battle. {2:25} This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the
fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear
the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you.
{2:26} I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon
king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, {2:27} Let me pass through
your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the
right hand nor to the left. {2:28} You shall sell me food for money,
that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let
me pass through on my feet, {2:29} as the children of Esau who dwell in
Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass
over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us. {2:30} But
Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God
hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might
deliver him into your hand, as at this day. {2:31} Yahweh said to me,
Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you: begin
to possess, that you may inherit his land. {2:32} Then Sihon came out
against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. {2:33} Yahweh
our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his sons,
and all his people. {2:34} We took all his cities at that time, and
utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little
ones; we left none remaining: {2:35} only the cattle we took for a prey
to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. {2:36}
From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [from]
the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city
too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us: {2:37} only
to the land of the children of Ammon you didn't come near; all the side
of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wherever
Yahweh our God forbade us.

    {3:1} Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the
king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at
Edrei. {3:2} Yahweh said to me, Don't fear him; for I have delivered
him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do
to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.
{3:3} So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of
Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him until none was left to
him remaining. {3:4} We took all his cities at that time; there was not
a city which we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of
Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. {3:5} All these were cities
fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns
a great many. {3:6} We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king
of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and
the little ones. {3:7} But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities,
we took for a prey to ourselves. {3:8} We took the land at that time
out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the
Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon; {3:9} ([which]
Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;)
{3:10} all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to
Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. {3:11} (For
only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold,
his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the children
of Ammon? nine cubits was the length of it, and four cubits the breadth
of it, after the cubit of a man.) {3:12} This land we took in
possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the
Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities of it, gave
I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites: {3:13} and the rest of Gilead,
and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of
Manasseh; all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called
the land of Rephaim. {3:14} Jair the son of Manasseh took all the
region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites,
and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this
day.) {3:15} I gave Gilead to Machir. {3:16} To the Reubenites and to
the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the
middle of the valley, and the border [of it], even to the river Jabbok,
which is the border of the children of Ammon; {3:17} the Arabah also,
and the Jordan and the border [of it], from Chinnereth even to the sea
of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
{3:18} I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh your God has given
you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your
brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor. {3:19} But your
wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that you have
much cattle), shall abide in your cities which I have given you, {3:20}
until Yahweh give rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also
possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan:
then shall you return every man to his possession, which I have given
you. {3:21} I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have
seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall
Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over. {3:22} You shall not
fear them; for Yahweh your God, he it is who fights for you. {3:23} I
begged Yahweh at that time, saying, {3:24} Lord Yahweh, you have begun
to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what god
is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works,
and according to your mighty acts? {3:25} Please let me go over and see
the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and
Lebanon. {3:26} But Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and didn't
listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, Let it suffice you; speak no more
to me of this matter. {3:27} Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up
your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see
with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan. {3:28} But
charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go
over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land
which you shall see. {3:29} So we abode in the valley over against Beth
Peor.

    {4:1} Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances,
which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess
the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you. {4:2} You
shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you
diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God
which I command you. {4:3} Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because
of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God
has destroyed them from the midst of you. {4:4} But you who did cleave
to Yahweh your God are alive everyone of you this day. {4:5} Behold, I
have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God
commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you
go in to possess it. {4:6} Keep therefore and do them; for this is your
wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall
hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise
and understanding people. {4:7} For what great nation is there, that
has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on
him? {4:8} What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances
so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? {4:9}
Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you
forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your
heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children
and your children's children; {4:10} the day that you stood before
Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, Assemble me the
people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear
me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach
their children. {4:11} You came near and stood under the mountain; and
the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness,
cloud, and thick darkness. {4:12} Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst
of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; only
[you heard] a voice. {4:13} He declared to you his covenant, which he
commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them
on two tables of stone. {4:14} Yahweh commanded me at that time to
teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land
where you go over to possess it. {4:15} Take therefore good heed to
yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that Yahweh spoke
to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire. {4:16} Lest you corrupt
yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any
figure, the likeness of male or female, {4:17} the likeness of any
animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies
in the sky, {4:18} the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground,
the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; {4:19}
and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and
the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn
away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has
allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky. {4:20} But Yahweh has
taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt,
to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day. {4:21}
Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I
should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good
land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance: {4:22} but I
must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go
over, and possess that good land. {4:23} Take heed to yourselves, lest
you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and
make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your
God has forbidden you. {4:24} For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire,
a jealous God. {4:25} When you shall father children, and children's
children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt
yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and
shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke
him to anger; {4:26} I call heaven and earth to witness against you
this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land
whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong
your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed. {4:27} Yahweh will
scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number
among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away. {4:28} There you
shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which
neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. {4:29} But from there you
shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search
after him with all your heart and with all your soul. {4:30} When you
are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter
days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice:
{4:31} for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you,
neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he
swore to them. {4:32} For ask now of the days that are past, which were
before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from
the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been [any such
thing] as this great thing is, or has been heard like it? {4:33} Did
ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the
fire, as you have heard, and live? {4:34} Or has God tried to go and
take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by
signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an
outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh
your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? {4:35} To you it was
shown, that you might know that Yahweh he is God; there is none else
besides him. {4:36} Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that
he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire;
and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. {4:37} Because he
loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and
brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
{4:38} to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than
you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at
this day. {4:39} Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart,
that Yahweh he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there
is none else. {4:40} You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments,
which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with
your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the
land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever. {4:41} Then Moses set
apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; {4:42} that
the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and
didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities
he might live: {4:43} [namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain
country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and
Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites. {4:44} This is the law which Moses
set before the children of Israel: {4:45} these are the testimonies,
and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children
of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt, {4:46} beyond the Jordan,
in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the
Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel
struck, when they came forth out of Egypt. {4:47} They took his land in
possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the
Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; {4:48} from
Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount
Sion (the same is Hermon), {4:49} and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan
eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

   {5:1} Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel,
the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day,
that you may learn them, and observe to do them. {5:2} Yahweh our God
made a covenant with us in Horeb. {5:3} Yahweh didn't make this
covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here
alive this day. {5:4} Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the
mountain out of the midst of the fire, {5:5} (I stood between Yahweh
and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for you were
afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;)
saying, {5:6} "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage. {5:7} You shall have no other gods
before me.

   {5:8} "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any
likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: {5:9} you shall not
bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am
a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children,
and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
{5:10} and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me
and keep my commandments.

   {5:11} "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain: for
Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

   {5:12} "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God
commanded you. {5:13} Six days shall you labor, and do all your work;
{5:14} but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God: [in it] you
shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your
man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor
any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that
your man-servant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you. {5:15}
You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and
Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an
outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the
Sabbath day.

   {5:16} "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God
commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with
you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

   {5:17} "You shall not murder.

   {5:18} "Neither shall you commit adultery.

   {5:19} "Neither shall you steal.

   {5:20} "Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.

   {5:21} "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall
you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his
maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your
neighbor's."

   {5:22} These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain
out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness,
with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables
of stone, and gave them to me. {5:23} It happened, when you heard the
voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning
with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes,
and your elders; {5:24} and you said, Behold, Yahweh our God has shown
us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the
midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does speak with man,
and he lives. {5:25} Now therefore why should we die? for this great
fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more,
then we shall die. {5:26} For who is there of all flesh, that has heard
the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as
we have, and lived? {5:27} Go you near, and hear all that Yahweh our
God shall say: and speak you to us all that Yahweh our God shall speak
to you; and we will hear it, and do it. {5:28} Yahweh heard the voice
of your words, when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, I have
heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to
you: they have well said all that they have spoken. {5:29} Oh that
there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all
my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their
children forever! {5:30} Go tell them, Return you to your tents. {5:31}
But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the
commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall
teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to
possess it. {5:32} You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God
has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the
left. {5:33} You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has
commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and
that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

   {6:1} Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances,
which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in
the land where you go over to possess it; {6:2} that you might fear
Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I
command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of
your life; and that your days may be prolonged. {6:3} Hear therefore,
Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that
you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has
promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. {6:4} Hear,
Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one: {6:5} and you shall love
Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with
all your might. {6:6} These words, which I command you this day, shall
be on your heart; {6:7} and you shall teach them diligently to your
children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when
you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. {6:8}
You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for
symbols between your eyes. {6:9} You shall write them on the door-posts
of your house, and on your gates. {6:10} It shall be, when Yahweh your
God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities,
which you didn't build, {6:11} and houses full of all good things,
which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig,
vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat
and be full; {6:12} then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you
forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. {6:13} You
shall fear Yahweh your God; and him shall you serve, and shall swear by
his name. {6:14} You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the
peoples who are round about you; {6:15} for Yahweh your God in the
midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be
kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
{6:16} You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in
Massah. {6:17} You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh
your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded
you. {6:18} You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of
Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and
possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, {6:19} to
thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
{6:20} When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the
testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God
has commanded you? {6:21} then you shall tell your son, We were
Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt
with a mighty hand; {6:22} and Yahweh shown signs and wonders, great
and sore, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
{6:23} and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to
give us the land which he swore to our fathers. {6:24} Yahweh commanded
us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good
always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day. {6:25} It
shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment
before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.

   {7:1} When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you
go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the
Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and
the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater
and mightier than you; {7:2} and when Yahweh your God shall deliver
them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly
destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to
them; {7:3} neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter
you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take to your
son. {7:4} For he will turn away your son from following me, that they
may serve other gods: so will the anger of Yahweh be kindled against
you, and he will destroy you quickly. {7:5} But thus shall you deal
with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their
pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images
with fire. {7:6} For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh
your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above
all peoples who are on the face of the earth. {7:7} Yahweh didn't set
his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than
any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples: {7:8} but because
Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to
your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and
redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king
of Egypt. {7:9} Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the
faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love
him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations, {7:10} and
repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not
be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face. {7:11}
You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them. {7:12} It shall
happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them,
that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving
kindness which he swore to your fathers: {7:13} and he will love you,
and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your
body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and
your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in
the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. {7:14} You shall
be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren
among you, or among your cattle. {7:15} Yahweh will take away from you
all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know,
will he put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you. {7:16}
You shall consume all the peoples who Yahweh your God shall deliver to
you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods;
for that will be a snare to you. {7:17} If you shall say in your heart,
These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? {7:18} you
shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Yahweh your
God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt; {7:19} the great trials which
your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and
the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so
shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
{7:20} Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until
those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you. {7:21}
You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of
you, a great and awesome God. {7:22} Yahweh your God will cast out
those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them
at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you. {7:23} But
Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them
with a great confusion, until they be destroyed. {7:24} He will deliver
their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish
from under the sky: there shall no man be able to stand before you,
until you have destroyed them. {7:25} The engraved images of their gods
shall you burn with fire: you shall not covet the silver or the gold
that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared therein; for it
is an abomination to Yahweh your God. {7:26} You shall not bring an
abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it: you
shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a
devoted thing.

   {8:1} All the commandment which I command you this day shall you
observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess
the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. {8:2} You shall remember
all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the
wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in
your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. {8:3} He
humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which
you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you
know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that
proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live. {8:4} Your clothing
didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
{8:5} You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son,
so Yahweh your God chastens you. {8:6} You shall keep the commandments
of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. {8:7} For
Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water,
of springs and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; {8:8} a
land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a
land of olive trees and honey; {8:9} a land in which you shall eat
bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land
whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
{8:10} You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God
for the good land which he has given you. {8:11} Beware lest you forget
Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances,
and his statutes, which I command you this day: {8:12} lest, when you
have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived
therein; {8:13} and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your
silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is
multiplied; {8:14} then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh
your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage; {8:15} who led you through the great and terrible
wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty
ground where was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock
of flint; {8:16} who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your
fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove
you, to do you good at your latter end: {8:17} and [lest] you say in
your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this
wealth. {8:18} But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who
gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which
he swore to your fathers, as at this day. {8:19} It shall be, if you
shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve
them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall
surely perish. {8:20} As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before
you, so shall you perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of
Yahweh your God.

   {9:1} Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go
in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities
great and fortified up to the sky, {9:2} a people great and tall, the
sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who
can stand before the sons of Anak? {9:3} Know therefore this day, that
Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he
will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so shall you
drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken
to you. {9:4} Don't speak in your heart, after that Yahweh your God has
thrust them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness Yahweh
has brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of
these nations Yahweh does drive them out from before you. {9:5} Not for
your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in
to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh
your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish
the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob. {9:6} Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn't give you
this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a
stiff-necked people. {9:7} Remember, don't forget, how you provoked
Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went
forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have
been rebellious against Yahweh. {9:8} Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh
to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you. {9:9} When I
was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the
tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the
mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink
water. {9:10} Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written
with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the
words, which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of
the fire in the day of the assembly. {9:11} It came to pass at the end
of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two tables of
stone, even the tables of the covenant. {9:12} Yahweh said to me,
Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people whom you have
brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly
turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them
a molten image. {9:13} Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, I have
seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people: {9:14} let
me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under
the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than
they. {9:15} So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the
mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were
in my two hands. {9:16} I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against
Yahweh your God; you had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside
quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you. {9:17} I took
hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke
them before your eyes. {9:18} I fell down before Yahweh, as at the
first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink
water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which
was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. {9:19} For I
was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was
angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time
also. {9:20} Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I
prayed for Aaron also at the same time. {9:21} I took your sin, the
calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it,
grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the
dust of it into the brook that descended out of the mountain. {9:22} At
Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh
to wrath. {9:23} When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up
and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against
the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn't believe him, nor
listen to his voice. {9:24} You have been rebellious against Yahweh
from the day that I knew you. {9:25} So I fell down before Yahweh the
forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said
he would destroy you. {9:26} I prayed to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh,
don't destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed
through your greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt with a
mighty hand. {9:27} Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob;
don't look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness,
nor to their sin, {9:28} lest the land whence you brought us out say,
Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he
promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to
kill them in the wilderness. {9:29} Yet they are your people and your
inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your
outstretched arm.

    {10:1} At that time Yahweh said to me, Hew you two tables of stone
like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of
wood. {10:2} I will write on the tables the words that were on the
first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark. {10:3}
So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the
first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand.
{10:4} He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten
commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the
midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to
me. {10:5} I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables
in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
{10:6} (The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to
Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son
ministered in the priest's office in his place. {10:7} From there they
traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks
of water. {10:8} At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to
bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to
minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day. {10:9}
Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh
is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.) {10:10}
I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty
nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not
destroy you. {10:11} Yahweh said to me, Arise, take your journey before
the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to
their fathers to give to them. {10:12} Now, Israel, what does Yahweh
your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all
his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your
heart and with all your soul, {10:13} to keep the commandments of
Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?
{10:14} Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of
heavens, the earth, with all that is therein. {10:15} Only Yahweh had a
delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after
them, even you above all peoples, as at this day. {10:16} Circumcise
therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
{10:17} For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the
great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't regard persons, nor
takes reward. {10:18} He does execute justice for the fatherless and
widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
{10:19} Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the
land of Egypt. {10:20} You shall fear Yahweh your God; him shall you
serve; and to him shall you cleave, and by his name shall you swear.
{10:21} He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you
these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen. {10:22} Your
fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your
God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

   {11:1} Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his
charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments,
always. {11:2} Know you this day: for I don't speak with your children
who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh
your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,
{11:3} and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt
to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; {11:4} and what he
did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how
he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after
you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day; {11:5} and what he
did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; {11:6} and
what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben;
how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their
households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them,
in the midst of all Israel: {11:7} but your eyes have seen all the
great work of Yahweh which he did. {11:8} Therefore shall you keep all
the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong,
and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it; {11:9}
and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to
your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with
milk and honey. {11:10} For the land, where you go in to possess it,
isn't as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed
your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; {11:11}
but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and
valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of the sky, {11:12} a land
which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always
on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
{11:13} It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my
commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and
to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, {11:14} that I
will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the
latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and
your oil. {11:15} I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and
you shall eat and be full. {11:16} Take heed to yourselves, lest your
heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and
worship them; {11:17} and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you,
and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land
shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good
land which Yahweh gives you. {11:18} Therefore shall you lay up these
my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a
sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.
{11:19} You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you
sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down,
and when you rise up. {11:20} You shall write them on the door-posts of
your house, and on your gates; {11:21} that your days may be
multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh
swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above
the earth. {11:22} For if you shall diligently keep all this
commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to
walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him; {11:23} then will Yahweh
drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess
nations greater and mightier than yourselves. {11:24} Every place
whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the
wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to
the hinder sea shall be your border. {11:25} There shall no man be able
to stand before you: Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the
dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken
to you. {11:26} Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a
curse: {11:27} the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of
Yahweh your God, which I command you this day; {11:28} and the curse,
if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but
turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after
other gods, which you have not known. {11:29} It shall happen, when
Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess
it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on
Mount Ebal. {11:30} Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of
the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in
the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? {11:31} For
you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which
Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.
{11:32} You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances
which I set before you this day.

   {12:1} These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall
observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has
given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
{12:2} You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations
that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and
on the hills, and under every green tree: {12:3} and you shall break
down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their
Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their
gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place. {12:4} You
shall not do so to Yahweh your God. {12:5} But to the place which
Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name
there, even to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come;
{12:6} and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and
your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstborn of your herd
and of your flock: {12:7} and there you shall eat before Yahweh your
God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and
your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you. {12:8} You
shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man
whatever is right in his own eyes; {12:9} for you haven't yet come to
the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.
{12:10} But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which
Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all
your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety; {12:11} then it
shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to
cause his name to dwell there, there shall you bring all that I command
you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the
heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to
Yahweh. {12:12} You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your
sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your
maid-servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has
no portion nor inheritance with you. {12:13} Take heed to yourself that
you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
{12:14} but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your
tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall
do all that I command you. {12:15} Notwithstanding, you may kill and
eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul,
according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you:
the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of
the hart. {12:16} Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it
out on the earth as water. {12:17} You may not eat within your gates
the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the
firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you
vow, nor your freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of your hand;
{12:18} but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place
which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your
daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite
who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God
in all that you put your hand to. {12:19} Take heed to yourself that
you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. {12:20}
When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you,
and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul desires to eat
flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the desire of your soul. {12:21} If
the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, be
too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock,
which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat
within your gates, after all the desire of your soul. {12:22} Even as
the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the
unclean and the clean may eat of it alike. {12:23} Only be sure that
you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not
eat the life with the flesh. {12:24} You shall not eat it; you shall
pour it out on the earth as water. {12:25} You shall not eat it; that
it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you
shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh. {12:26} Only your
holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to
the place which Yahweh shall choose: {12:27} and you shall offer your
burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your
God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar
of Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh. {12:28} Observe and
hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you,
and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is
good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God. {12:29} When Yahweh your
God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to
dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;
{12:30} take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them,
after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire
after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even
so will I do likewise. {12:31} You shall not do so to Yahweh your God:
for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to
their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the
fire to their gods. {12:32} Whatever thing I command you, that shall
you observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

   {13:1} If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder, {13:2} and the sign or the
wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after
other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them; {13:3} you
shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of
dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh
your God with all your heart and with all your soul. {13:4} You shall
walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments,
and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave to him. {13:5}
That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because
he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to
draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to
walk in. So shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.

   {13:6} If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your
daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own
soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods,
which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; {13:7} of the gods of
the peoples who are round about you, near to you, or far off from you,
from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
{13:8} you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall
your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal
him: {13:9} but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on
him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
{13:10} You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought
to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. {13:11} All Israel shall hear,
and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the
midst of you.

   {13:12} If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which
Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying, {13:13} Certain base
fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the
inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods,
which you have not known; {13:14} then shall you inquire, and make
search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing
certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you, {13:15} you
shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the
sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle of
it, with the edge of the sword. {13:16} You shall gather all the spoil
of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn with fire the
city, and all the spoil of it every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it
shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again. {13:17} There
shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that Yahweh may
turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have
compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
{13:18} when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep
all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is
right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.

   {14:1} You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
{14:2} For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has
chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who
are on the face of the earth. {14:3} You shall not eat any abominable
thing. {14:4} These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the
sheep, and the goat, {14:5} the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck,
and the wild goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois.
{14:6} Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in
two, [and] chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat. {14:7}
Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of
those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the
rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they are
unclean to you. {14:8} The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't
chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and
their carcasses you shall not touch. {14:9} These you may eat of all
that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat;
{14:10} and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it
is unclean to you. {14:11} Of all clean birds you may eat. {14:12} But
these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the
gier-eagle, and the ospray, {14:13} and the red kite, and the falcon,
and the kite after its kind, {14:14} and every raven after its kind,
{14:15} and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the
hawk after its kind, {14:16} the little owl, and the great owl, and the
horned owl, {14:17} and the pelican, and the vulture, and the
cormorant, {14:18} and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the
hoopoe, and the bat. {14:19} All winged creeping things are unclean to
you: they shall not be eaten. {14:20} Of all clean birds you may eat.
{14:21} You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give
it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he
may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy
people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's
milk. {14:22} You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed,
that which comes forth from the field year by year. {14:23} You shall
eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he shall choose, to
cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new
wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your
flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always. {14:24} If
the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it,
because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall
choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;
{14:25} then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in
your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall
choose: {14:26} and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul
desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or
for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before
Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. {14:27}
The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he
has no portion nor inheritance with you. {14:28} At the end of every
three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the
same year, and shall lay it up within your gates: {14:29} and the
Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the
foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are
within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that
Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

   {15:1} At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
{15:2} This is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release
that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his
neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.
{15:3} Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with
your brother your hand shall release. {15:4} However there shall be no
poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which
Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;) {15:5} if
only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe
to do all this commandment which I command you this day. {15:6} For
Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend
to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many
nations, but they shall not rule over you. {15:7} If there be with you
a poor man, one of your brothers, within any of your gates in your land
which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor
shut your hand from your poor brother; {15:8} but you shall surely open
your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in
that] which he wants. {15:9} Beware that there not be a base thought in
your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;
and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him
nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
{15:10} You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved
when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will
bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.
{15:11} For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I
command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother,
to your needy, and to your poor, in your land. {15:12} If your brother,
a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six
years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
{15:13} When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go
empty: {15:14} you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and
out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your
God has blessed you, you shall give to him. {15:15} You shall remember
that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God
redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today. {15:16} It
shall be, if he tell you, I will not go out from you; because he loves
you and your house, because he is well with you; {15:17} then you shall
take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be
your servant forever. Also to your maid-servant you shall do likewise.
{15:18} It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from
you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six
years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do. {15:19}
All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock
you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the
firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. {15:20}
You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which
Yahweh shall choose, you and your household. {15:21} If it have any
blemish, [as if it be] lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you
shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God. {15:22} You shall eat it
within your gates: the unclean and the clean [shall eat it] alike, as
the gazelle, and as the hart. {15:23} Only you shall not eat its blood;
you shall pour it out on the ground as water.

   {16:1} Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh
your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth
out of Egypt by night. {16:2} You shall sacrifice the Passover to
Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. {16:3} You shall eat no
leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread
therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the
land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came
forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. {16:4} There
shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither
shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at even,
remain all night until the morning. {16:5} You may not sacrifice the
Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you;
{16:6} but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at even,
at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of
Egypt. {16:7} You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your
God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your
tents. {16:8} Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the
seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do
no work [therein]. {16:9} Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the
time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain shall you begin
to number seven weeks. {16:10} You shall keep the feast of weeks to
Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill-offering of your hand,
which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you: {16:11}
and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and
your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the
Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless,
and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh
your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. {16:12} You
shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall
observe and do these statutes. {16:13} You shall keep the feast of
tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing
floor and from your winepress: {16:14} and you shall rejoice in your
feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and
your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the
fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates. {16:15} Seven
days shall you keep a feast to Yahweh your God in the place which
Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your
increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be
altogether joyful. {16:16} Three times in a year shall all your males
appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in
the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the
feast of tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty: {16:17}
every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh
your God which he has given you. {16:18} Judges and officers shall you
make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according
to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous
judgment. {16:19} You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect
persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the
eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. {16:20} That
which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and
inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you. {16:21} You shall not
plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh
your God, which you shall make you. {16:22} Neither shall you set
yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.

   {17:1} You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep,
in which is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an abomination
to Yahweh your God. {17:2} If there be found in the midst of you,
within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman,
who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in
transgressing his covenant, {17:3} and has gone and served other gods,
and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the
sky, which I have not commanded; {17:4} and it be told you, and you
have heard of it, then shall you inquire diligently; and, behold, if it
be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in
Israel, {17:5} then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who
has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and
you shall stone them to death with stones. {17:6} At the mouth of two
witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death;
at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. {17:7} The
hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and
afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil
from the midst of you. {17:8} If there arise a matter too hard for you
in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and
between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your
gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your
God shall choose; {17:9} and you shall come to the priests the Levites,
and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and
they shall show you the sentence of judgment. {17:10} You shall do
according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from
that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do
according to all that they shall teach you: {17:11} according to the
tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the
judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn
aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand,
nor to the left. {17:12} The man who does presumptuously, in not
listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your
God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away
the evil from Israel. {17:13} All the people shall hear, and fear, and
do no more presumptuously. {17:14} When you are come to the land which
Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell
therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations
that are round about me; {17:15} you shall surely set him king over
you, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers
shall you set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who
is not your brother. {17:16} Only he shall not multiply horses to
himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he
may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, You shall
henceforth return no more that way. {17:17} Neither shall he multiply
wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he
greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. {17:18} It shall be, when
he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of
this law in a book, out of [that which is] before the priests the
Levites: {17:19} and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein
all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to
keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; {17:20}
that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not
turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to
the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his
children, in the midst of Israel.

   {18:1} The priests the Levites, [even] all the tribe of Levi, shall
have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the
offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his inheritance. {18:2} They
shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is their
inheritance, as he has spoken to them. {18:3} This shall be the
priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether
it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and
the two cheeks, and the maw. {18:4} The first fruits of your grain, of
your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your
sheep, shall you give him. {18:5} For Yahweh your God has chosen him
out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him
and his sons for ever. {18:6} If a Levite comes from any of your gates
out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all
the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose; {18:7}
then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his
brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh. {18:8} They
shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale
of his patrimony. {18:9} When you are come into the land which Yahweh
your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of
those nations. {18:10} There shall not be found with you anyone who
makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses
divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
{18:11} or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a
wizard, or a necromancer. {18:12} For whoever does these things is an
abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your
God does drive them out from before you. {18:13} You shall be perfect
with Yahweh your God. {18:14} For these nations, that you shall
dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but
as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do. {18:15}
Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you,
of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen; {18:16} according
to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the
assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God,
neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die. {18:17}
Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken.
{18:18} I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like
you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them
all that I shall command him. {18:19} It shall happen, that whoever
will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will
require it of him. {18:20} But the prophet, who shall speak a word
presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or
who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
{18:21} If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which
Yahweh has not spoken? {18:22} when a prophet speaks in the name of
Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing
which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously,
you shall not be afraid of him.

   {19:1} When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land
Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their
cities, and in their houses; {19:2} you shall set apart three cities
for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to
possess it. {19:3} You shall prepare you the way, and divide the
borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into
three parts, that every manslayer may flee there. {19:4} This is the
case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills
his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; {19:5} as when
a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand
fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips
from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall
flee to one of these cities and live: {19:6} lest the avenger of blood
pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because
the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of
death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past. {19:7} Therefore I
command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you. {19:8}
If Yahweh your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn to your
fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give to your
fathers; {19:9} if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which
I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in
his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, besides these
three: {19:10} that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your
land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood
be on you. {19:11} But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait
for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he
dies, and he flee into one of these cities; {19:12} then the elders of
his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand
of the avenger of blood, that he may die. {19:13} Your eye shall not
pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that
it may go well with you. {19:14} You shall not remove your neighbor's
landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which
you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to
possess it. {19:15} One witness shall not rise up against a man for any
iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two
witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be
established. {19:16} If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man
to testify against him of wrong-doing, {19:17} then both the men,
between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the
priests and the judges who shall be in those days; {19:18} and the
judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is
a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; {19:19}
then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so
shall you put away the evil from the midst of you. {19:20} Those who
remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any
such evil in the midst of you. {19:21} Your eyes shall not pity; life
[shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot
for foot.

   {20:1} When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see
horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall not be
afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out
of the land of Egypt. {20:2} It shall be, when you draw near to the
battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, {20:3}
and shall tell them, Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle
against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor
tremble, neither be scared of them; {20:4} for Yahweh your God is he
who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
{20:5} The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is
there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go
and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man
dedicate it. {20:6} What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and
has not used the fruit of it? let him go and return to his house, lest
he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit of it. {20:7} What
man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken
her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and
another man take her. {20:8} The officers shall speak further to the
people, and they shall say, What man is there who is fearful and
faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's
heart melt as his heart. {20:9} It shall be, when the officers have
made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains
of armies at the head of the people. {20:10} When you draw near to a
city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. {20:11} It shall
be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be,
that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to
you, and shall serve you. {20:12} If it will make no peace with you,
but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it: {20:13} and
when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every
male of it with the edge of the sword: {20:14} but the women, and the
little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the
spoil of it, shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat
the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you. {20:15}
Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you,
which are not of the cities of these nations. {20:16} But of the cities
of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance,
you shall save alive nothing that breathes; {20:17} but you shall
utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and
the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has
commanded you; {20:18} that they not teach you to do after all their
abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin
against Yahweh your God. {20:19} When you shall besiege a city a long
time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the
trees of it by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them,
and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that
it should be besieged of you? {20:20} Only the trees of which you know
that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down;
and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you,
until it fall.

   {21:1} If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives
you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has
struck him; {21:2} then your elders and your judges shall come forth,
and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him who is
slain: {21:3} and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the
slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the
herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the
yoke; {21:4} and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to
a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and
shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. {21:5} The priests
the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen
to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according
to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be. {21:6} All
the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash
their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; {21:7}
and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood,
neither have our eyes seen it. {21:8} Forgive, Yahweh, your people
Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood [to
remain] in the midst of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven
them. {21:9} So shall you put away the innocent blood from the midst of
you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
{21:10} When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh
your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away
captive, {21:11} and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you
have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife; {21:12} then
you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head,
and pare her nails; {21:13} and she shall put the clothing of her
captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her
father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to
her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. {21:14} It shall
be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she
will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal
with her as a slave, because you have humbled her. {21:15} If a man
have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have
borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the
firstborn son be hers who was hated; {21:16} then it shall be, in the
day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may
not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the
hated, who is the firstborn: {21:17} but he shall acknowledge the
firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all
that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the
firstborn is his. {21:18} If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son,
who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother,
and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them; {21:19} then
shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to
the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place; {21:20} and they
shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and
rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a
drunkard. {21:21} All the men of his city shall stone him to death with
stones: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you; and all
Israel shall hear, and fear. {21:22} If a man have committed a sin
worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree;
{21:23} his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall
surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God;
that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an
inheritance.

   {22:1} You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray,
and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your
brother. {22:2} If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know
him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with
you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.
{22:3} So shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his
garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing of your brother's,
which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.
{22:4} You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by
the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift
them up again. {22:5} A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither
shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is
an abomination to Yahweh your God. {22:6} If a bird's nest chance to be
before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or
eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not
take the hen with the young: {22:7} you shall surely let the hen go,
but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you,
and that you may prolong your days. {22:8} When you build a new house,
then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring
blood on your house, if any man fall from there. {22:9} You shall not
sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be
forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the
vineyard. {22:10} You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
{22:11} You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
{22:12} You shall make you fringes on the four borders of your cloak,
with which you cover yourself. {22:13} If any man take a wife, and go
in to her, and hate her, {22:14} and lay shameful things to her charge,
and bring up an evil name on her, and say, I took this woman, and when
I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;
{22:15} then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take
and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders
of the city in the gate; {22:16} and the young lady's father shall tell
the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;
{22:17} and, behold, he has laid shameful things [to her charge],
saying, I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet
these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. They shall spread the
garment before the elders of the city. {22:18} The elders of that city
shall take the man and chastise him; {22:19} and they shall fine him
one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the
young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of
Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his
days. {22:20} But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity
were not found in the young lady; {22:21} then they shall bring out the
young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city
shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in
Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so shall you put
away the evil from the midst of you. {22:22} If a man be found lying
with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die,
the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away
the evil from Israel. {22:23} If there be a young lady who is a virgin
pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and
lie with her; {22:24} then you shall bring them both out to the gate of
that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady,
because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has
humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the
midst of you. {22:25} But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be
married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the
man only who lay with her shall die: {22:26} but to the lady you shall
do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a
man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;
{22:27} for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady
cried, and there was none to save her. {22:28} If a man find a lady who
is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and
lie with her, and they be found; {22:29} then the man who lay with her
shall give to the lady's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she
shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away
all his days. {22:30} A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall
not uncover his father's skirt.

   {23:1} He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut
off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh. {23:2} A bastard
shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth
generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Yahweh. {23:3}
An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh;
even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into
the assembly of Yahweh forever: {23:4} because they didn't meet you
with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt,
and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor
of Mesopotamia, to curse you. {23:5} Nevertheless Yahweh your God
wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a
blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you. {23:6} You shall
not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. {23:7}
You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not
abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land. {23:8}
The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter
into the assembly of Yahweh. {23:9} When you go forth in camp against
your enemies, then you shall keep you from every evil thing. {23:10} If
there be among you any man, who is not clean by reason of that which
happens him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall
not come within the camp: {23:11} but it shall be, when evening comes
on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall
come within the camp. {23:12} You shall have a place also outside of
the camp, where you shall go forth abroad: {23:13} and you shall have a
paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down abroad,
you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes
from you: {23:14} for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp,
to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall
your camp be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and
turn away from you. {23:15} You shall not deliver to his master a
servant who is escaped from his master to you: {23:16} he shall dwell
with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose
within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not
oppress him. {23:17} There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of
Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
{23:18} You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a
dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both these
are an abomination to Yahweh your God. {23:19} You shall not lend on
interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest
of anything that is lent on interest: {23:20} to a foreigner you may
lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest,
that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in
the land where you go in to possess it. {23:21} When you shall vow a
vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for Yahweh
your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
{23:22} But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
{23:23} That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do;
according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill-offering,
which you have promised with your mouth. {23:24} When you come into
your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your
own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel. {23:25} When
you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the
ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's
standing grain.

   {24:1} When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be,
if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly
thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in
her hand, and send her out of his house. {24:2} When she is departed
out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife]. {24:3} If the
latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it
in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband
die, who took her to be his wife; {24:4} her former husband, who sent
her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is
defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause
the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
{24:5} When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army,
neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home
one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken. {24:6} No man
shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a
man's] life to pledge. {24:7} If a man be found stealing any of his
brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or
sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil
from the midst of you. {24:8} Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that
you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the
Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to
do. {24:9} Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as
you came forth out of Egypt. {24:10} When you do lend your neighbor any
manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
{24:11} You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall
bring forth the pledge outside to you. {24:12} If he be a poor man, you
shall not sleep with his pledge; {24:13} you shall surely restore to
him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his
garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before
Yahweh your God. {24:14} You shall not oppress a hired servant who is
poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners
who are in your land within your gates: {24:15} in his day you shall
give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor,
and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be
sin to you. {24:16} The fathers shall not be put to death for the
children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers:
every man shall be put to death for his own sin. {24:17} You shall not
wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor
take the widow's clothing to pledge; {24:18} but you shall remember
that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you
there: therefore I command you to do this thing. {24:19} When you reap
your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you
shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the
fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in
all the work of your hands. {24:20} When you beat your olive tree, you
shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for
the fatherless, and for the widow. {24:21} When you gather [the grapes
of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it shall be for
the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. {24:22} You shall
remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I
command you to do this thing.

   {25:1} If there be a controversy between men, and they come to
judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the
righteous, and condemn the wicked; {25:2} and it shall be, if the
wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to
lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his
wickedness, by number. {25:3} Forty stripes he may give him, he shall
not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with
many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you. {25:4} You
shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain]. {25:5} If
brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife
of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's
brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform
the duty of a husband's brother to her. {25:6} It shall be, that the
firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who
is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel. {25:7} If the man
doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall
go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses
to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the
duty of a husband's brother to me. {25:8} Then the elders of his city
shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't
want to take her; {25:9} then his brother's wife shall come to him in
the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and
spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to
the man who does not build up his brother's house. {25:10} His name
shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.
{25:11} When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the
one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who
strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
{25:12} then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
{25:13} You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a
small. {25:14} You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a
great and a small. {25:15} A perfect and just weight shall you have; a
perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be long in
the land which Yahweh your God gives you. {25:16} For all who do such
things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh
your God. {25:17} Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you
came forth out of Egypt; {25:18} how he met you by the way, and struck
the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were
faint and weary; and he didn't fear God. {25:19} Therefore it shall be,
when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies round
about, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance
to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under
the sky; you shall not forget.

   {26:1} It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh
your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell
therein, {26:2} that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of
the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your
God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the
place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there. {26:3} You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days,
and tell him, I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to
the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us. {26:4} The
priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before
the altar of Yahweh your God. {26:5} You shall answer and say before
Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went
down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became
there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. {26:6} The Egyptians dealt
ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage: {26:7} and
we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice,
and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression; {26:8} and
Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with
wonders; {26:9} and he has brought us into this place, and has given us
this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. {26:10} Now, behold, I
have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh,
have given me. You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and
worship before Yahweh your God: {26:11} and you shall rejoice in all
the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house,
you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.
{26:12} When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your
increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you
shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and
to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
{26:13} You shall say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the holy
things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to
the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all
your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed
any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them: {26:14} I have
not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being
unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of
Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
{26:15} Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless
your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you
swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. {26:16} This
day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances:
you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all
your soul. {26:17} You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God,
and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his
commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice: {26:18} and
Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession,
as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;
{26:19} and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in
praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to
Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.

   {27:1} Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
Keep all the commandment which I command you this day. {27:2} It shall
be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which
Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones,
and plaster them with plaster: {27:3} and you shall write on them all
the words of this law, when you are passed over; that you may go in to
the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and
honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you. {27:4} It
shall be, when you are passed over the Jordan, that you shall set up
these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount Ebal, and you
shall plaster them with plaster. {27:5} There shall you build an altar
to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron
[tool] on them. {27:6} You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of
uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh
your God: {27:7} and you shall sacrifice peace-offerings, and shall eat
there; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God. {27:8} You shall
write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly. {27:9}
Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Keep
silence, and listen, Israel: this day you are become the people of
Yahweh your God. {27:10} You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh
your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you
this day. {27:11} Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
{27:12} These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when
you are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and
Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin. {27:13} These shall stand on Mount
Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and
Naphtali. {27:14} The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of
Israel with a loud voice, {27:15} Cursed be the man who makes an
engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the
hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall
answer and say, Amen. {27:16} Cursed be he who sets light by his father
or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen. {27:17} Cursed be he who
removes his neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amen.
{27:18} Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All
the people shall say, Amen. {27:19} Cursed be he who wrests the justice
[due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall
say, Amen. {27:20} Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife,
because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say,
Amen. {27:21} Cursed be he who lies with any manner of animal. All the
people shall say, Amen. {27:22} Cursed be he who lies with his sister,
the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. All the
people shall say, Amen. {27:23} Cursed be he who lies with his
mother-in-law. All the people shall say, Amen. {27:24} Cursed be he who
strikes his neighbor in secret. All the people shall say, Amen. {27:25}
Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All the
people shall say, Amen. {27:26} Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the
words of this law to do them. All the people shall say, Amen.

   {28:1} It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice
of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I
command you this day, who Yahweh your God will set you on high above
all the nations of the earth: {28:2} and all these blessings shall come
on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh
your God. {28:3} Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall
you be in the field. {28:4} Blessed shall be the fruit of your body,
and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your animals, the
increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. {28:5} Blessed
shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. {28:6} Blessed shall you
be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. {28:7}
Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck
before you: they shall come out against you one way, and shall flee
before you seven ways. {28:8} Yahweh will command the blessing on you
in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless
you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. {28:9} Yahweh will
establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if
you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his
ways. {28:10} All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are
called by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you. {28:11}
Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and
in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the
land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you. {28:12} Yahweh
will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your
land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you
shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow. {28:13} Yahweh
will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only,
and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments
of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do
[them], {28:14} and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I
command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after
other gods to serve them. {28:15} But it shall come to pass, if you
will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all
his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that
all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you. {28:16} Cursed
shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. {28:17}
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. {28:18} Cursed
shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the
increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. {28:19} Cursed
shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
{28:20} Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all
that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you
perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have
forsaken me. {28:21} Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you,
until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go in to
possess it. {28:22} Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with
fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword,
and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you
perish. {28:23} Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the
earth that is under you shall be iron. {28:24} Yahweh will make the
rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on
you, until you are destroyed. {28:25} Yahweh will cause you to be
struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and
shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and
forth among all the kingdoms of the earth. {28:26} Your dead body shall
be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and
there shall be none to frighten them away. {28:27} Yahweh will strike
you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scurvy,
and with the itch, of which you can not be healed. {28:28} Yahweh will
strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of
heart; {28:29} and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in
darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only
oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.
{28:30} You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:
you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall
plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it. {28:31} Your ox
shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your
donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall
not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and
you shall have none to save you. {28:32} Your sons and your daughters
shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail
with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the
power of your hand. {28:33} The fruit of your ground, and all your
labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall be
only oppressed and crushed always; {28:34} so that you shall be mad for
the sight of your eyes which you shall see. {28:35} Yahweh will strike
you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can
not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
{28:36} Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over
you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and
there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone. {28:37} You shall
become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples
where Yahweh shall lead you away. {28:38} You shall carry much seed out
into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall
consume it. {28:39} You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you
shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm
shall eat them. {28:40} You shall have olive trees throughout all your
borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive
shall cast [its fruit]. {28:41} You shall father sons and daughters,
but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity. {28:42}
All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.
{28:43} The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above
you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower. {28:44}
He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the
head, and you shall be the tail. {28:45} All these curses shall come on
you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed;
because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which he commanded you: {28:46} and they
shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.
{28:47} Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and
with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
{28:48} therefore shall you serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send
against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of
all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have
destroyed you. {28:49} Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far,
from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language
you shall not understand; {28:50} a nation of fierce facial
expressions, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show
favor to the young, {28:51} and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and
the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not
leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the
young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. {28:52} They
shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified
walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and
they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land,
which Yahweh your God has given you. {28:53} You shall eat the fruit of
your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom
Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with
which your enemies shall distress you. {28:54} The man who is tender
among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother,
and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his
children whom he has remaining; {28:55} so that he will not give to any
of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has
nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your
enemy shall distress you in all your gates. {28:56} The tender and
delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of
her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall
be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward
her daughter, {28:57} and toward her young one who comes out from
between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she
shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the
distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
{28:58} If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that
are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful
name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD; {28:59} then Yahweh will make your plagues
wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of
long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. {28:60}
He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were
afraid of; and they shall cleave to you. {28:61} Also every sickness,
and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them
will Yahweh bring on you, until you are destroyed. {28:62} You shall be
left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for
multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
{28:63} It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you
good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you
to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the
land where you go in to possess it. {28:64} Yahweh will scatter you
among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end
of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not
known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone. {28:65} Among these
nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole
of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and
failing of eyes, and pining of soul; {28:66} and your life shall hang
in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have
no assurance of your life. {28:67} In the morning you shall say, Would
it were even! and at even you shall say, Would it were morning! for the
fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes
which you shall see. {28:68} Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again
with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more
again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for
bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.

   {29:1} These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides
the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. {29:2} Moses called to
all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before
your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and
to all his land; {29:3} the great trials which your eyes saw, the
signs, and those great wonders: {29:4} but Yahweh has not given you a
heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. {29:5} I
have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown
old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on your foot. {29:6} You
have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that
you may know that I am Yahweh your God. {29:7} When you came to this
place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out
against us to battle, and we struck them: {29:8} and we took their
land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the
Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites. {29:9} Keep therefore
the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all
that you do. {29:10} You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your
God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all
the men of Israel, {29:11} your little ones, your wives, and your
foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your
wood to the one who draws your water; {29:12} that you may enter into
the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your
God makes with you this day; {29:13} that he may establish you this day
to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke
to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob. {29:14} Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this
oath, {29:15} but with him who stands here with us this day before
Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day
{29:16} (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we
came through the midst of the nations through which you passed; {29:17}
and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone,
silver and gold, which were among them); {29:18} lest there should be
among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away
this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations;
lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
{29:19} and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he
bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk
in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
{29:20} Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and
his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is
written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his
name from under the sky. {29:21} Yahweh will set him apart to evil out
of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the
covenant that is written in this book of the law. {29:22} The
generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the
foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the
plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it
sick; {29:23} [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt,
[and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows
therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim,
which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: {29:24} even all
the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what
means the heat of this great anger? {29:25} Then men shall say, Because
they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he
made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
{29:26} and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that
they didn't know, and that he had not given to them: {29:27} therefore
the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all
the curse that is written in this book; {29:28} and Yahweh rooted them
out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and
cast them into another land, as at this day. {29:29} The secret things
belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us
and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

   {30:1} It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call
them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven
you, {30:2} and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his
voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your
children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; {30:3} that then
Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you,
and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your
God has scattered you. {30:4} If [any of] your outcasts are in the
uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God gather
you, and from there will he bring you back: {30:5} and Yahweh your God
will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you
shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your
fathers. {30:6} Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the
heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and
with all your soul, that you may live. {30:7} Yahweh your God will put
all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who
persecuted you. {30:8} You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh,
and do all his commandments which I command you this day. {30:9} Yahweh
your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the
fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit
of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for
good, as he rejoiced over your fathers; {30:10} if you shall obey the
voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes
which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your
God with all your heart, and with all your soul. {30:11} For this
commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you,
neither is it far off. {30:12} It is not in heaven, that you should
say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us
to hear it, that we may do it? {30:13} Neither is it beyond the sea,
that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to
us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? {30:14} But the word is
very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.
{30:15} Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death
and evil; {30:16} in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your
God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes
and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh
your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
{30:17} But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall
be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; {30:18} I
denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not
prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in
to possess it. {30:19} I call heaven and earth to witness against you
this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and
the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
{30:20} to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to
him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may
dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

   {31:1} Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. {31:2} He
said to them, I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more
go out and come in: and Yahweh has said to me, You shall not go over
this Jordan. {31:3} Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he
will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess
them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
{31:4} Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings
of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed. {31:5} Yahweh
will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to
all the commandment which I have commanded you. {31:6} Be strong and of
good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your
God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake
you. {31:7} Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all
Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall go with this
people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give
them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. {31:8} Yahweh, he it is
who does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you,
neither forsake you: don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. {31:9} Moses
wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who
bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of
Israel. {31:10} Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every]
seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of
tents, {31:11} when all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your God
in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all
Israel in their hearing. {31:12} Assemble the people, the men and the
women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates,
that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God,
and observe to do all the words of this law; {31:13} and that their
children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your
God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to
possess it. {31:14} Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach
that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of
meeting, that I may give him a charge. Moses and Joshua went, and
presented themselves in the tent of meeting. {31:15} Yahweh appeared in
the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the
door of the Tent. {31:16} Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep
with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the
prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be
among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have
made with them. {31:17} Then my anger shall be kindled against them in
that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them,
and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on
them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us
because our God is not among us? {31:18} I will surely hide my face in
that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they
are turned to other gods. {31:19} Now therefore write you this song for
you, and teach you it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths,
that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
{31:20} For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore
to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have
eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to
other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
{31:21} It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them,
that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not
be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their
imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into
the land which I swore. {31:22} So Moses wrote this song the same day,
and taught it the children of Israel. {31:23} He gave Joshua the son of
Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for you shall
bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I
will be with you. {31:24} It happened, when Moses had made an end of
writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
{31:25} that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh, saying, {31:26} Take this book of the law, and put
it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it
may be there for a witness against you. {31:27} For I know your
rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you
this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more
after my death? {31:28} Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes,
and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call
heaven and earth to witness against them. {31:29} For I know that after
my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the
way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the
latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of
Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. {31:30}
Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this
song, until they were finished.

   
{32:1} Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak;
Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
{32:2} My doctrine shall drop as the rain;
My speech shall condense as the dew,
As the small rain on the tender grass,
As the showers on the herb.
{32:3} For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh:
Ascribe greatness to our God.
{32:4} The Rock, his work is perfect;
For all his ways are justice:
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
Just and right is he.
{32:5} They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children,
      [it is] their blemish;
[They are] a perverse and crooked generation.
{32:6} Do you thus requite Yahweh,
Foolish people and unwise?
Isn't he your father who has bought you?
He has made you, and established you.
{32:7} Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations:
Ask your father, and he will show you;
Your elders, and they will tell you.
{32:8} When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
When he separated the children of men,
He set the bounds of the peoples
According to the number of the children of Israel.
{32:9} For Yahweh's portion is his people;
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
{32:10} He found him in a desert land,
In the waste howling wilderness;
He compassed him about, he cared for him,
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
{32:11} As an eagle that stirs up her nest,
That flutters over her young,
He spread abroad his wings, he took them,
He bore them on his feathers.
{32:12} Yahweh alone did lead him,
There was no foreign god with him.
{32:13} He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
He ate the increase of the field;
He made him to suck honey out of the rock,
Oil out of the flinty rock;
{32:14} Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock,
With fat of lambs,
Rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
With the finest of the wheat;
Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
{32:15} But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked:
You have grown fat, you are grown thick, you are become sleek;
Then he forsook God who made him,
Lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
{32:16} They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods];
With abominations provoked they him to anger.
{32:17} They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God,
To gods that they didn't know,
To new [gods] that came up of late,
Which your fathers didn't dread.
{32:18} Of the Rock that became your father, you are unmindful,
Have forgotten God who gave you birth.
{32:19} Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them],
Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
{32:20} He said, I will hide my face from them,
I will see what their end shall be:
For they are a very perverse generation,
Children in whom is no faithfulness.
{32:21} They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God;
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities:
I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
{32:22} For a fire is kindled in my anger,
Burns to the lowest Sheol,
Devours the earth with its increase,
Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
{32:23} I will heap evils on them;
I will spend my arrows on them:
{32:24} [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning
      heat
Bitter destruction;
The teeth of animals will I send on them,
With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
{32:25} Outside shall the sword bereave,
In the chambers terror;
[It shall destroy] both young man and virgin,
The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
{32:26} I said, I would scatter them afar,
I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;
{32:27} Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,
Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted,
Yahweh has not done all this.
{32:28} For they are a nation void of counsel,
There is no understanding in them.
{32:29} Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would consider their latter end!
{32:30} How should one chase a thousand,
Two put ten thousand to flight,
Except their Rock had sold them,
Yahweh had delivered them up?
{32:31} For their rock is not as our Rock,
Even our enemies themselves being judges.
{32:32} For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
Of the fields of Gomorrah:
Their grapes are grapes of gall,
Their clusters are bitter:
{32:33} Their wine is the poison of serpents,
The cruel venom of asps.
{32:34} Isn't this laid up in store with me,
Sealed up among my treasures?
{32:35} Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
At the time when their foot shall slide:
For the day of their calamity is at hand,
The things that are to come on them shall make haste.
{32:36} For Yahweh will judge his people,
Repent himself for his servants;
When he sees that [their] power is gone,
There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
{32:37} He will say, Where are their gods,
The rock in which they took refuge;
{32:38} Which ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink-offering?
Let them rise up and help you,
Let them be your protection.
{32:39} See now that I, even I, am he,
There is no god with me:
I kill, and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal;
There is none who can deliver out of my hand.
{32:40} For I lift up my hand to heaven,
And say, As I live forever,
{32:41} If I whet my glittering sword,
My hand take hold on judgment;
I will render vengeance to my adversaries,
Will recompense those who hate me.
{32:42} I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
My sword shall devour flesh;
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
{32:43} Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people:
For he will avenge the blood of his servants,
Will render vengeance to his adversaries,
Will make expiation for his land, for his people.

   {32:44} Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears
of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. {32:45} Moses made an end
of speaking all these words to all Israel; {32:46} He said to them, Set
your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you
shall command your children to observe to do, [even] all the words of
this law. {32:47} For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your
life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land,
where you go over the Jordan to possess it. {32:48} Yahweh spoke to
Moses that same day, saying, {32:49} Go up into this mountain of
Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over
against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the
children of Israel for a possession; {32:50} and die on the mountain
where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother
died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people: {32:51} because you
trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the
waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you
didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel. {32:52} For
you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the
land which I give the children of Israel.

   {33:1} This is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed
the children of Israel before his death. {33:2} He said,
Yahweh came from Sinai,
Rose from Seir to them;
He shined forth from Mount Paran,
He came from the ten thousands of holy ones:
At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
{33:3} Yes, he loves the people;
All his saints are in your hand:
They sat down at your feet;
[Everyone] shall receive of your words.
{33:4} Moses commanded us a law,
An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
{33:5} He was king in Jeshurun,
When the heads of the people were gathered,
All the tribes of Israel together.
{33:6} Let Reuben live, and not die;
Nor let his men be few.

   {33:7} This is [the blessing] of Judah: and he said,
Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah,
Bring him in to his people.
With his hands he contended for himself;
You shall be a help against his adversaries.

   {33:8} Of Levi he said,
Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one,
Whom you did prove at Massah,
With whom you did strive at the waters of Meribah;
{33:9} Who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him;
Neither did he acknowledge his brothers,
Nor knew he his own children:
For they have observed your word,
Keep your covenant.
{33:10} They shall teach Jacob your ordinances,
Israel your law:
They shall put incense before you,
Whole burnt offering on your altar.
{33:11} Bless, Yahweh, his substance,
Accept the work of his hands:
Smite through the loins of those who rise up against him,
Of those who hate him, that they not rise again.

   {33:12} Of Benjamin he said,

   The beloved of Yahweh shall dwell in safety by him;

   He covers him all the day long,

   He dwells between his shoulders.

   {33:13} Of Joseph he said,
Blessed of Yahweh be his land,
For the precious things of the heavens, for the dew,
For the deep that couches beneath,
{33:14} For the precious things of the fruits of the sun,
For the precious things of the growth of the moons,
{33:15} For the chief things of the ancient mountains,
For the precious things of the everlasting hills,
{33:16} For the precious things of the earth and the fullness of it,
The good will of him who lived in the bush.
Let [the blessing] come on the head of Joseph,
On the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.
{33:17} The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his;
His horns are the horns of the wild-ox:
With them he shall push the peoples all of them, [even] the ends of the
      earth:
They are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
They are the thousands of Manasseh.

   {33:18} Of Zebulun he said,
Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out;
Issachar, in your tents.
{33:19} They shall call the peoples to the mountain;
There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness:
For they shall suck the abundance of the seas,
The hidden treasures of the sand.

   {33:20} Of Gad he said,
Blessed be he who enlarges Gad:
He dwells as a lioness,
Tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.
{33:21} He provided the first part for himself,
For there was the lawgiver's portion reserved;
He came [with] the heads of the people;
He executed the righteousness of Yahweh,
His ordinances with Israel.

   {33:22} Of Dan he said,
Dan is a lion's cub,
That leaps forth from Bashan.

   {33:23} Of Naphtali he said,
Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
Full with the blessing of Yahweh,
Possess you the west and the south.

   {33:24} Of Asher he said,
Blessed be Asher with children;
Let him be acceptable to his brothers,
Let him dip his foot in oil.
{33:25} Your bars shall be iron and brass;
As your days, so shall your strength be.
{33:26} There is none like God, Jeshurun,
Who rides on the heavens for your help,
In his excellency on the skies.
{33:27} The eternal God is [your] dwelling-place,
Underneath are the everlasting arms.
He thrust out the enemy from before you,
Said, Destroy.
{33:28} Israel dwells in safety,
The fountain of Jacob alone,
In a land of grain and new wine;
Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
{33:29} Happy are you, Israel:
Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh,
The shield of your help,
The sword of your excellency!
Your enemies shall submit themselves to you;
You shall tread on their high places.

   {34:1} Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the
top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh shown him all the
land of Gilead, to Dan, {34:2} and all Naphtali, and the land of
Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the hinder sea,
{34:3} and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city
of palm trees, to Zoar. {34:4} Yahweh said to him, This is the land
which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give
it to your seed: I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you
shall not go over there. {34:5} So Moses the servant of Yahweh died
there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Yahweh. {34:6} He
buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth Peor:
but no man knows of his tomb to this day. {34:7} Moses was one hundred
twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural
force abated. {34:8} The children of Israel wept for Moses in the
plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for
Moses were ended. {34:9} Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit
of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him: and the children of
Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses. {34:10}
There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh
knew face to face, {34:11} in all the signs and the wonders, which
Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his
servants, and to all his land, {34:12} and in all the mighty hand, and
in all the great terror, which Moses worked in the sight of all Israel.

   

   

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